RULES OF - Cobb & Douglas Public Health

290-5-14-.05 Equipment and Utensils. Amended. (4) Location and Installation.
(4) Location and Installation.
(a) Equipment, Clothes Washers and Dryers, and Storage Cabinets,
Contamination Prevention.
1. Except as specified in 2 of this subsection, equipment, a cabinet used for the storage of food, or
a cabinet that is used to store cleaned and sanitized equipment, utensils, laundered linens, and singleservice
and single-use articles may not be located under any source of contamination, including in
locker rooms ; in toilet rooms; in garbage rooms; in mechanical rooms; under sewer lines; under
leaking water lines including leaking automatic fire sprinkler heads or under lines on which water has
condensed; or under open stairwells.
2. A storage cabinet used for linens or single-service or single-use articles may be stored in a
locker room.
3. If a mechanical clothes washer or dryer is provided, it shall be located so that the washer or
dryer is protected from contamination and only where there is no exposed food; clean equipment,
utensils, and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.
(b) Fixed Equipment, Spacing or Sealing.
1. Equipment that is fixed because it is not easily movable shall be installed so that it is:
(i) Spaced to allow access for cleaning along the sides, behind, and above the equipment;
(ii) Spaced from adjoining equipment, walls, and ceilings a distance of not more than one
thirty-second inch or 1 millimeter; or
(iii) Sealed to adjoining equipment or walls, if the equipment is exposed to spillage or seepage.
2. Table-mounted equipment that is not easily movable shall be installed to allow cleaning of the
equipment and areas underneath and around the equipment by being:
(i) Sealed to the table; or
(ii) Elevated on legs that provide at least a 4 inch (10 centimeter) clearance between the table
and the equipment.
(c) Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing.
1. Except as specified in 2 and 3 of this subsection, floor-mounted equipment that is not easily
movable shall be sealed to the floor or elevated on legs that provide at least a 6 inch (15 centimeter)
clearance between the floor and the equipment.
Cobb and Douglas County Public Health
Douglas Food Service Code
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